Mace McLain is the hottest young gun at Wall Street's last great independent banking firm. Now he's just been named co-manager of a multi-billion-dollar "vulture fund," an ultra-risky real estate scheme preying on naive investors. The powerful senior partner is willing to bet the bank on it. So is Kathleen Hunt, a gorgeous investment banker with high-level contacts. What do they know that he doesn't?
With the help of a beautiful graduate student named Rachel Sommers, McLain follows a bizarre trail that stretches from the jungles of Latin America to Washington and the secret councils of the CIA ... where deception shadows his every move--and where even the most irrefutable evidence can't diminish his deadly risk. ...